At 07:04 PM 11/18/99 , Toru Nishimura wrote:
>I'm reducing interlocked dangleweeds in NetBSD/pmax hoping it would
>ease adding new DECstation hardwares, 5400/5500/5800.  Basically it'd
>be just ok to have dec_{5400,5500,5800}.c in pmax/ directory.  'ibus'
>construtor can support 'Q22bus' and/or 'XMI' having "q22" or "xmi"
>identification string in platform.iobus and preparing others so-so.

I really want to see ibus moved out of pmax/ and under /dev (perhaps
putting making it dbus).  I think that the ibus device attachments 
should be common with the vax port.  the dc/dz for instance.  any
wscons support should be port neutral.  

This will also help the ds5400/5500 to leverage the vax q22bus support,
shac, and other devices.  imagine running X on a QDSS(GPX) on a 5400.

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